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Soccer News of Friday, 12 March 2004
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Hearts Play Togolese Rivals Again
Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club would take on Togolese Champion Club, A. S. Douanes in a special international friendly football match at the Accra Sports Stadium on Sunday, March 14.
The match was initiated and organised by Phoenix Consult Limited, a sports and marketing concern based in Accra.
Both teams would be using this match to prepare adequately for their respective crucial second leg Champions League encounters.
Mr. Ashford Tettey Oku, Administrative Manager of Hearts said in a press release on Wednesday that both teams recorded impressive away results at last weekend?s first leg preliminaries of the CAF Champions League.
Hearts of Oak drew goalless with Stade Malien in Bamako whilst A.S. Douanes drew 1 -1 with A.S. Dragon of Benin in Cotonou.
The match is expected to kick-off at 3.00 pm with moderate rates of 10,000 to be charged at the Osu and Popular stands while the Upper Terrace, Wings and VIP will go for 20,000 cedis.
Last year, Hearts of Oak bundled out A. S Douanes on a 4-1 aggregate at the one-sixteenth stage of the same tournament after managing a narrow 1-0 win in Accra and following up with a massive 3-1 victory in Lome.
This time around A. S. Douanes are poised to avenge these defeats and Sunday offers them the rare opportunity to do that but trust Hearts to jealously guard its home invincibility to satisfy their teeming fans.
Head Coach Ernst Middendorp would hope to observe a couple of his players he intends to call up for duty as replacements for his captain Amankwa Mireku and attacking midfielder Francis Bossman who received red cards in the dying minutes of their match in Mali.
The two were so influential in the Bamako game that Ernst has been planning since the team resumed training on return from Mali to get the best line up he can assemble for the March 21 return date.
He has already played some low profile trial games and seems to approve of the team?s gradual progress, maintaining however that nothing would be left to chance until victory is achieved.
